Daily AncestorPrest.
Prest. is short for president, as of a company or bank; it was an approved abbreviation in the 1900 census.
The 1900 census list of occupation abbreviations spells president as Prest. You will see it with the business named after it, such as Prest., bank or Prest., Mfg. co.
The 1930 instructions counted the president of a bank among wage or salary workers, not employers, so do not assume he owned the firm. A man called Prest. of a local firm is likely to appear in county histories and business directories.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1900 census
Prest., National Bank
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